Millions of people nationwide are dependent on multivitamins to make up for deficiencies in their diets, but a prominent author and pediatrician says that taking them in a certain way could actually have adverse effects on your health.

America's favorite dietary supplements, multivitamins, modestly lowered the risk for cancer in healthy male doctors who took them for more than a decade, the first large study to test these pills has found.

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